Ecology 96

Après la crise bancaire qui a ébranlé le monde et continue de le secouer, une véritable panique climatique a failli en amplifier les effets. Heureusement, à Copenhague, grâce aux pays du Sud soutenu……続きを見る

Three Mile Island, Tchernobyl, Fukushima... et demain ? Fessenheim, Blayais ou Pierrelatte ? Dormez tranquilles, braves gens, nous veillons sur votre sécurité. Telle est, en substance, l'antienne qu……続きを見る

C'est en faisant entrer l'écologie dans l'économie qu'on sauvera la planète et les hommes qui y vivent. Vive l'écologie moteur de la croissance ! A bas l'écologie du déclin ! Une fois encore, nécess……続きを見る

Les " lasagnes à la viande de cheval " ont révélé l'opacité des chaînes de production agroalimentaire qui nous nourrissent. Un livre pour retrouver confiance en découvrant les mécanismes de notre al……続きを見る

Many of the encounters between farming and wildlife, especially vertebrates, involve some level of conflict which can cause disadvantage to both the wildlife and the people involved. Through a serie……続きを見る

**For upper-level and/or graduate level Primatology or Biological Anthropology courses.**Socioecology of Adult Female Patas Monkeys and Vervet in Kenya, East Africa provides students with a glimpse ……続きを見る

" La gauche française a longtemps cru au Progrès ; cette foi s'estompe au point de disparaître. Ainsi les objectifs annoncés en matière d'énergie semblent incompréhensibles tant ils sont contraires ……続きを見る

As the global economy seeks to recover from the financial crisis and warnings about the consequences of climate change abound, it is clear that we need a fundamentally new approach to tackle these i……続きを見る

The First Edition of the Encyclopedia of Global Warming and Climate Change provided a multi-authored, academic yet non-technical resource for students and teachers to understand the importance of gl……続きを見る

How does a single acorn produce an intricate structure of branches and leaves? How do migrating birds organize into sweeping patterns across the sky? How does a grounded caterpillar acquire wings an……続きを見る

Many environmental scientists, scholars and activists characterise our situation as one of alienation from nature, but this notion can easily seem meaningless or irrational. In this book, Simon Hail……続きを見る

Climate change will be an ecological and humanitarian catastrophe unless we move quickly to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions. Policy experts advise us that we need to make major changes to our lif……続きを見る

Part of the Primate Field Studies series. The Spectral Tarier shares the results of long-term field study by Sharon L. Gursky with a broad audience. 続きを見る

The focus of this volume is research carried out as part of the program Mathematics of Planet Earth, which provides a platform to showcase the essential role of mathematics in addressing planetary p……続きを見る

The use of pesticides to control agricultural pests both benefits farm production and imposes health and environmental costs on producers and society. This title, first published in 1988, includes a……続きを見る

An interest in the minor metals – termed "minor" as their annual production is relatively small – had been developing for many years. This study, first published in 1965, examines patterns of supply……続きを見る

Filling a void in academic and policy-relevant literature on the topic of the green economy in the Arabian Gulf, this edited volume provides a multidisciplinary analysis of the key themes and challe……続きを見る

To bio or not to bio? 64 % des Français ont consommé bio en 2012, 43 % au moins une fois par mois. Mais qu'est-ce que le bio ? Quelle est la différence entre tous les sigles ? Quelles sont les bonne……続きを見る

Le soleil, l'eau, le vent, la géothermie, la biomasse... Autant d'énergies renouvelables qui sont supposées, demain, remplacer les bonnes vieilles énergies fossiles. Mais attention ! Accomplir la fa……続きを見る

Réchauffement climatique, pétrole, OGM... Chaque jour vous entendez parler d'écologie. Celle-ci vous poursuit jusque dansvotre cuisine, et vous culpabilisez à l'idée de prendre un bain. Vous n'avez ……続きを見る

Basics in Human Evolution offers a broad view of evolutionary biology and medicine. The book is written for a non-expert audience, providing accessible and convenient content that will appeal to num……続きを見る

Aquatic Functional Biodiversity: An Ecological and Evolutionary Perspective provides a general conceptual framework by some of the most prominent investigators in the field for how to link eco-evolu……続きを見る

In this book, the authors cover the basic methods and advances within distance sampling that are most valuable to practitioners and in ecology more broadly. This is the fourth book dedicated to dist……続きを見る

Accounting literature has viewed sustainability in terms of social, economic and environmental performances. There have been concerns that the relationship between sustainability, accounting and org……続きを見る

Meeting the aims of sustainability is becoming increasingly difficult; at the same time, the call for culture is becoming more powerful. This book explores the relationships between culture, sustain……続きを見る

This book, first published in 1988, provides a comprehensive, integrated body of knowledge concerning agricultural productivity research, highlighting both its strengths and limitations. This book w……続きを見る

The maintenance of the freedom of fishing in the face of the changing circumstances that were occurring at the time of this title’s original publication in 1973 had produced several damaging consequ……続きを見る

This title, first published in 1987, examines the topic of nuclear waste management, and the way in which the public reacts to this issue. Part 1 explores the sources of public unease, such as the w……続きを見る

This book, first published in 1982, takes the interaction between the domestic economy and the international trade in oil and, through the use of a consistent microeconomic framework, examines the c……続きを見る

Artisanal mining is commonly associated with violent conflict, rampant corruption and desperate poverty. Yet millions of people across Sub Sahara Africa depend on it. Many of them are living in east……続きを見る